Timeline for Is it okay to list a PhD student as corresponding author?
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| Sep 14, 2018 at 13:46 | comment | added | Pioneer83 | In my field, electrical and electronic engineering, it is the norm that PhD students are the corresponding authors of their papers, even if other coauthors are professors. In fact, during my PhD all my papers were coauthored with three professors including one associate and I was the corresponding authors. No problem, in my opinion | |
| Sep 14, 2018 at 12:49 | comment | added | Miguel | I am corresponding author on all the papers for which I'm first author, including those I published during my PhD in collaboration with my supervisor and other senior people. Never once have I had any problems, with editors, university or coauthors, for that matter. | |
| Mar 11, 2017 at 18:58 | answer | added | wonderich | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 23:25 | comment | added | E.P. | Make sure to check whether your email account will expire after you graduate, and consider carefully which address to provide if it does. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 17:40 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 7:49 | comment | added | user9482 | Corresponding author is a technical role. The only requirements are that you are an author of the manuscript and available for correspondence. In my field that role is typically handled by the first author, who usually is a PhD student. However, (in my field) nobody cares who is the corresponding author. Authorship order is more important. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 4:20 | answer | added | StR | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 4:09 | comment | added | Coder | With one of my friends I got a paper in which we both are listed as Corr. Author. Since you are PhD students, you can use university affiliation. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 3:42 | history | edited | David Ketcheson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2017 at 2:52 | answer | added | David Z | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 2:40 | comment | added | jpmc26 | What did you advisor say about it? Surely, they can at least tell you if this is normal in your field and could potentially give you advice on how the university will react. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 2:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/840024814916120576 | ||
| Mar 10, 2017 at 1:30 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @dentist_inedible Be careful with just handing out authorship like that. While some fields are fairly lax in what suffices to constitute authorship, in some "gift" authorship (or authorship that's solely used to make the paper look more important) like you're essentially proposing is considered unethical. You should make yourself aware of field and journal standards for authorship. In principle, no one should ever care who the (corresponding) author of a paper is. If it passes the initial muster test by the editor, reviewers should consider it in good faith. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 23:27 | comment | added | Christian Matt | What makes you believe that a PhD student should not be corresponding author? | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | dentist_inedible | @TobiasKildetoft I guess what we are wondering is, should we try to identify a faculty member who does research in this area to "sponsor" our submission by acting as corresponding author? We are planning on asking an expert in the field who my colleague knows personally and who had previously expressed interest in the project to review the manuscript before submission, would it be best to also ask him to be the corresponding author? | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 23:00 | history | edited | dentist_inedible | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 21:23 | answer | added | Luigi | timeline score: 22 | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 20:59 | answer | added | Christian Matt | timeline score: 52 | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 20:56 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | (a) No, it's not unethical to list a PhD student as a corresponding author (b) definitely not, and if that draws the ire of your university, well, that's not a university you want to study in (c) likely not. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 20:50 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | But you say that your colleague is also a PhD student. So you seem to be running out of authors to designate as corresponding. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 20:47 | history | asked | dentist_inedible | CC BY-SA 3.0 |